CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN 

 HORTICULTURE 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Of Cornell University, assisted by WILHELM MILLER, and many 

 Expert Cultivators and Botanists 



Four volumes Over 2800 original engravings Cloth 

 Octavo $20 net per set Half morocco, $32 net per set 



This great work comprises directions for the cultivation of 

 horticultural crops and original descriptions of all the species of 

 fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants known to be in 

 the market in the United States and Canada. " It has the unique 

 distinction of presenting for the first time, in a carefully arranged 

 and perfectly accessible form, the best knowledge of the best 

 specialists in America upon gardening, fruit-growing, vegetable 

 culture, forestry, and the like, as well as exact botanical infor- 

 mation. . . . The contributors are eminent cultivators or 

 specialists, and the arrangement is very systematic, clear and 

 convenient for ready reference." 



"We have here a work which every ambitious gardener will wish to 

 place on his shelf beside his Nicholson and his Loudon, and for such 

 users of it a too-advanced nomenclature would have been confusing to 

 the last degree. With the safe names here given there is little liability 

 to serious perplexity. There is a growing impatience with much of the 

 controversy concerning revision of names of organisms, whether of 

 plants or animals. Those investigators who are busied with the ecologi- 

 cal aspects of organisms, and also those who are chiefly concerned with 

 the application of plants to the arts of agriculture, horticulture, and so 

 on, care for the names of organisms under examination only so far as 

 these aid in recognition and identification. To introduce unnecessary 

 confusion is a serious blunder. Professor Bailey has avoided the risk of 

 confusion. In short, in range, treatment and editing, the Cyclopedia 

 appears to be emphatically useful: . . . a work worthy of ranking by 

 the side of the Century Dictionary." The Nation. 



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